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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Saturated my 6 Mbps DSL connection
- Downthemall works
- No download limit that I encountered.
- Multiple encoding rates and formats, recent movies offer portable sizes up to 1080p
- You can download clips from a DVD or the entire DVD. Nice.
- Scenes include photo .zip files for downloading as well as screen captures.
- Even the reasonably sized ipad/iphone .mp4 clips are decent quality on a larger computer screen.
- It doesn't seem to log you out arbitrarily. Thank you, webmaster.
- Lots of short haired actresses if that's something you're interested in (not a category or tag, just a function of having a lot of actresses in general). |
| Cons: |
- Some photo zips are just low-res screen captures
- Ads inside
- Site didn't seem as responsive as it could've been, and I suspect it's because there is SO much going on in every page. It's a very, very visually-busy site.
- Apparently a very traffic-busy site as well, because I ran into a few "connection reset - server is too busy" pages while the downloads from the site continued along fine.
- When you click on the scene or link you want to visit, a HUGE full-page banner promoting the latest movie/actress/scene is at the top and you are forced to scroll down past it before you can see the content you were looking for. Very irritating, and so annoying I searched for browser add-ons to try to disable it.
- Can't find a way to mark actresses as favorites.
- Seems a bit silly, but there is no logout button that I could find.
-Their older videos are watchable but poor quality by today's standards.
- To be continued (nothing too bad, just a few more notes) |
| Bottom Line: |
Cons continued:
- The page layout can be very annoying. For example, if you click on updates, you get a scene/DVD/scene/DVD/scene/DVD layout, with the page and scenes/DVDs all sort of running together.
- Big size gap between video quality/encoding options, and wacky encoding options/sizes.
- Video download links expire after a day or so.
BOTTOM LINE
First and foremost, it's nice to not have to login and get past a captcha every hour or two after being logged out automatically. I don't think I was prompted to log in past the initial join date. Nicely done, NS.
A large site with a lot of content and quite a few hidden gems. For example: I saw that they only had one (1) Nicole Aniston scene and I was disappointed. When I click on it I discover the one (1) Nicole Aniston scene is her with short hair and her natural breasts. Full disclosure- The site review might've started at 110% because of that.
Seriously, though, there are a lot of actresses/scenes like that. If you've got some time it's worth digging through (even with the irritatations that will be addressed later) simply because they have a lot of stars I'd forgotten about or who are no longer active that you'll stumble across.
The site is heavily focusing on the stepson/daughter/brother/sister/mom/dad angle. Not my thing, but it's all fake exactly like every other plumber or pizza delivery guy setup.
The majority of the actresses are college aged, but there is a good MILF representation, too. Great mix of skin colors, hair length/style/color, etc. Looking for some short haired actresses? This is the place to visit.
In a reverse of what I usually see, the video links are only good for about a day in your download manager while the photo .zip links seem to last indefinitely. That's probably a fairly reasonable approach on the business end to keep people subscribed, but on the collector-consumer end this is a huge site with lots of content that you're not going to get unless you want to take a lot of time each day setting up new links.
GRIPES
A lot of the "glamcore" style movies are way too dark. I think they're aiming for artistic, but it just ends up looking like porn without adequate lighting.
Size/encoding- I don't get this at all. The newer movies are in HD, but the same clip in different resolutions will be named the same thing. EVERY .mp4 of a clip, from the mobile to the ipad to the 720 to the 1080, will be named "something_something_1920.mp4".
BIG gripe: You think you can maximize content downloaded but still get really good quality by grabbing the 720p clips, but they are often the exact same size or nearly exactly the same size as the 1080p clips. I can't see any advantage to downloading the 720p offerings when they offer 1920, 1440, and 720. I'm guessing all the others are converted down from the 1920, but I don't understand why so many sizes are identical.
Example: Ashley Jensen has a scene where the 720 and 1080 mp4s are nearly the same size (.84GB and .87GB respectively), and many of the full DVD offerings have 100% exactly the same size downloads for both 720 and 1080 offerings. I don't have a fast enough connection to test, but it makes me wonder if the resolution is exactly the same and only the screen size is manipulated when encoded.
It's a HUGE site, although that's tempered a bit by the way they pad each actresses' scene stats. Clicking on an actress gives you her scene, followed immediately by the DVD the scene came from as a second option. It often ends up looking like a repeat of itself. A better approach would be to have the DVD mentioned with the scene (for example, a clickable link saying "From the DVD "Everybody Loves This DVD" that goes to that DVD), but not repeated directly underneath.
For example: Choose Bobbi Starr. She's listed as having 35 scenes (woohoo!), but there are only 9 or 10 actual clips. The other 25 are the same clips in the full DVDs, the "party" version of the DVD (no xxx), bloopers, behind the scenes, etc. I didn't count off any points for that approach, but I view it as technically correct while still deceptive.
Lots of lingerie and nicely done "wife" style scenes, but quite a few silly striped socks and backwards baseball caps to force the "hey look, that 25 year old clearly just graduated high school" type fantasy, too.
I'm really surprised at how good this site is content-wise, but it's way too busy and not very pleasant to browse and view.
***It's the first paid site I've ever joined where I researched image blockers for Firefox to cut down on some of the clutter and get rid of the HUGE banner at the top that you have to scroll past every time***
The images are associated with the links to the videos, too, so it didn't work.
Webmaster- See Mile High Media / Famedigital for a more intuitive and pleasant user experience.
Bottom line- Get past the little annoyances and it's a large, good site with quality content. Would I join again?
Yes. |
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